diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/adr661_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/adr661_test.go
index 164d3a1f7..19e7d353e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/adr661_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/adr661_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"reflect"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -134,3 +136,20 @@ func TestNoCheckGatesAMergeAtTheGate(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Run(name, run)
 	}
 }
+
+// Issue 1794: the gate keeps no mark of an own ask of a check, so no verdict of another check of the head can clear one while
+// the gate's own is in flight: since issue 1318 the gate asks no check, only the checker's verdict at the heads is read, and a
+// run holds no field that marks an ask of one.
+func TestTheGateAsksNoCheckOfItsOwnSoNoMarkOfOneCanBeClearedByAnother(t *testing.T) {
+	typ := reflect.TypeOf(ReadyRun{})
+	for i := 0; i < typ.NumField(); i++ {
+		if f := typ.Field(i).Name; strings.HasPrefix(f, "OwnAsk") || strings.HasPrefix(f, "OwnCheck") {
+			t.Errorf("ReadyRun holds %s: a mark of a check the gate asked itself, which it no longer asks", f)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, key := range []string{"own_asked_at", "own_ask"} {
+		if raw, _ := json.Marshal(ReadyRun{}); strings.Contains(string(raw), key) {
+			t.Errorf("a run is kept with %s", key)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/ready.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/ready.go
index 18749f9f6..3898e05de 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/ready.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/ready.go
@@ -81,9 +81,6 @@ type ReadyRun struct {
 	// (merges.go).
 	MergeCommit string `json:"merge_commit,omitempty"`
 	SourceMoved bool   `json:"source_moved,omitempty"`
-	// OwnAskedAt is when its own check was asked after the merge tool refused it for a pending status of its own (issue
-	// 1049): once for the head this run is for.
-	OwnAskedAt time.Time `json:"own_asked_at,omitempty"`
 	// Urgent is set once a refusal of this head was one that is urgent at once: its severity never steps down to a
 	// warning after (issue 1275, AC6).
 	Urgent bool `json:"urgent,omitempty"`